Top 50 Most Overrated Electronic Albums

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Don't tell me you don't listen to "Wandering Star"...

otm mark w/ s/t though

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

(i kind of feel like naming stereolab in tom's absence, but "emperor tomato ketchup" started sounding great to me a couple months ago)

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't mind Jess including Dummy because it probably is shitty "electronic" music (if great pop).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

and while I think the follow-up was overrated at the time, I think there's some cool shit on that. For some reason it makes me imagine a black-and-white video of the Wu-Tang chopping off heads with those scythes.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

You do know that "Elysium" is Geoff Barrow's not so veiled tribute to the RZA?

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

that might explain where I started to associate the two together. Actually, I think it was more about how the album sounded like reviews of Wu solo albums I was reading at the time.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Exit Planet Dust
Endless Summer
As Heard On Radio Soulwax pt 2

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Junior Boys-Last Exit

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I'n surprised nobody mentioned Photek.

― BanjoMania (Brilhante), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Nobody better be hatin' on Modus Operandi, y'hear?

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Who likes arid d'n'b?

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

The arid-er, the better. I am soulless.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

these threads seem interchangable

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

pong

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

fuck this thread

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

51-20000 Any electronic album that I don't like

― Stacey Pollen (Andy K), Thursday, 3 June 2004 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"nobody listens to techno"

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Thursday, 3 June 2004 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

you don't know how much I love that line.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 3 June 2004 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

or the tears of joy the headline "MOBY: STOMPED BY OBIE" would inspire

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 3 June 2004 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

manitoba - up in flames

PLEASE

― jwd, Thursday, 3 June 2004 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

A lot of these thread choices *are* out of date I reckon - in the "once overrated, now underrated" sense. Like, the only reason no-one actually put 808 State albums down is that now nobody can *remember* the time when they were overrated.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 3 June 2004 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The only reason nobody put up an 808 State album is because I wasn't participating on this thread. I would have mentioned _Utd. State 90_ and _Ex:El_ even though I love them both.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"scorpio rising" is about as electronic as i am

― the surface noise for the sake of noise (electricsound), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

tim finney = genius, OTM, etc etc

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

the ONLY reason Strongo got to the ones I'd have picked (i.e. 99% of 'em) is that I wasn't here to do it first. Aphex Twin = most overrated electronic artist EVAH (who isn't from Detroit)

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

HOLY FUCK how did we get this far w/o mentioning the DJ FUCKING SPOOKY?!?!

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel bad for Spooky. I bought a copy of Nest magazine that came with a Spooky cd years ago and I STILL haven't listened to it. And I'll listen to anything.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Is DJ Olive still around?

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, just put out a new album. also, Gold Teeth Thief was overrated by, what, five people, including Jess?

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, no one said THE PRODIGY???????

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

there are sacreder cows to slaughter

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

right. please replace my vote for oval with 'songs for a dead dreamer'.

― (Jon L), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Where's Scanner on this list? He was just on NPR last week.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 4 June 2004 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

And he was still telling the same sad story about the first time he bought a scanner!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 4 June 2004 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

what pants was he wearing?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 4 June 2004 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

That I couldn't tell you. It was on the radio.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 4 June 2004 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

ah, sorry, not in US

― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 4 June 2004 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

fuck this thread
Yep. Sundar was totally otm about non-dancefloor oriented music upthread.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 4 June 2004 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

What does it say about me that this thread is making my blood boil? And why hasn't anyone mentioned Kid 606's Down With the Scene?

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Friday, 4 June 2004 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

It was doomed from the get-go, dissing SAW II like that. This thread has savagely dismissed like ten of my favorite records in the world!

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Friday, 4 June 2004 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

You don't like Radio-Activity = you are soulless

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Friday, 4 June 2004 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)

in response to Alex in SF and Strongo, I don't necessarily disagree with saying that Basic Channel stuff is overrated. I'm just saying you've got balls saying it ;) And apparently those balls are overrated by my mom, right?

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, 4 June 2004 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Jess just means that the Basic Channel singles are better than the CD... right? ;-)

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Friday, 4 June 2004 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i think fridge/fourtet don't belong above. they were significantly ahead of the game. same with pole. anyone that was making idm before the phrase was coined deserves a little credit. it's easy to wag your ass at that stuff now with the legions of ibooks and freeware about... but something else to consider is that most of the above sold themselves on 12 inch singles, not full lengths.

for example, photek's "seven samauri" was awesome but form and function was less so.
m.

― msp, Friday, 4 June 2004 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

One interesting thing about dance music as whole is that there's a sense in which each scene chronically underrates everything that comes out of each other scene. I can't think of many dance albums that are across-the-board canonical choices for dance fans which aren't also canonical choices for rock fans (ie. what annoys about "best ever electronic album" lists in dance mags is not the over-represented house classics you get in the corresponding 12" lists - and even that decreases by the year - but rather the fact that they list the same stuff that rock mags do in their own best albums ever threads, except, like, minus The Beatles).

For some reason rock tends to go in for that syncretist "I love my metal and my post-punk but y'know Radiohead and Outkast are definitely the geniuses right about now" approach much more. Perhaps they feel more of a responsibility to be broad-minded and representative (even if their representativeness is seriously flawed!).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread is so provocative. Isn't it fun to piss on records that nerds like?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

haha "nerds"--look who was doing the debunking, for fuck's sake! the biggest nerds EVAH!

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

(I include myself in absentia there, too, btw)

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

exactly! you can almost see them trying to distance themselves from nerdom.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes Oops, but that doesn't mean that as nerds we all secretly like Autechre whether we admit it or not.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

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